Tethered Styluses

Every day more touch screens are put into use in commercial applications, from retail to banking, travel and more...  Add to this to growing concern regarding the transmission of bacteria via anything used by the general public and you see styluses almost everywhere you see a touch screen.

For a company deploying these technologies they have a number of concerns, ranging from touch-screen compatibility (there are different technologies) to keeping the stylus from disappearing.

As for which technology a particular touch-screen employs, there are three common types of touch-screens - Capacitive, Resistive and Surface Acoustic Wave.  Each of these technologies has particular advantages, which our friends at StylusCentral.com have articulated in the following article:

http://www.styluscentral.com/shopcontent.asp?type=Which Stylus is for Which Device

Once a particular technology is deployed, and a stylus chosen, the next trick is to keep it from being lost or stolen, and also to keep it readily available, or obvious to the user that the stylus is there for their use.  That is where tethering comes in...

Tethering a stylus is not always as simple as it seems...  You have to consider the length of a tether, how it is to be connected/mounted, does it need to stretch, etc.  Our friends at e-Tether.com have provided some guidelines in the following article.

http://www.e-tether.com/shopcontent.asp?type=Tethering Guide

We hope this helps!

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